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The 64th Annual Tony Awards were on last night, and this is what winner Katie Finneran (Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for "Promises, Promises") had to say...
...I want to talk to the kids at home watching. I was a kid and I watched this show and it seemed so far away from me. And I want to tell you that all the people on this stage, and in this audience, we feel the same way. And, with the world being so fast right now, I want to remind you to focus on what you love. Because it is the greatest passport. It is the greatest roadmap to an extraordinarily blissful life. Just focus on that one thing.
Don’t listen to anybody else, and you will run into the right people, the right teachers, the right moments and circumstances, and one day you will meet a person that will share that love with you...
Amen to that!
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In honour of International Women's Day, which passed by very quietly yesterday (at least in my part of the world), I would like to say thank you to all the amazing, beautiful, talented, inspiring, courageous, forward-thinking, dedicated, loving, strong, independent, generous, spirited women in my life. There are many, but here's a short list (in order of my stream of
consciousness)...
Mum, Abuela, Meg, Vicky, every single tita and aunty, Anita, Phoebe, Rachel, Flea, Flick, Mrs Gibbons, Mrs Lukey, Mrs Martinotes, Miss Lorshy, Mrs Stevenson, Mrs Cullen, Mrs McAndrew, Lisa, Ms Paris, Miss Boyle, Ms Davis, Mrs Phelan, Mrs Hand, Mrs Stewart, Mrs Lowe, Miss Simone, Dana-Lee, Kirstin, Catilin, Bridget, Ella, Elizabeth, Rae, Hannah, Sophie, Trish, Amy, Gina, Laura, Ilse, Megan, Carmel, Kristin, Orange, Joce, Rochelle, Bernadette Peters, Julie Andrews, Doris Day, Barbara Streisand, Debbie Reynolds, Marni Nixon, Judy Garland, Idina Menzel, Caroline O'Connor, Kristin Chenoweth, Drew Barrymore, Oprah, Doreen Virtue, Mary Poppins, Maria, Shirley MacLaine, Rachel Griffiths, Ariel, Judy from Meditation, all the women in meditation, Ali Smith, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Gilbert, Barbara Kingsolver, Alanis Morriset, and Tori Amos.
To all the women whose names I have inadvertantly omitted, you're in there too.
Thank you.
consciousness)...
Mum, Abuela, Meg, Vicky, every single tita and aunty, Anita, Phoebe, Rachel, Flea, Flick, Mrs Gibbons, Mrs Lukey, Mrs Martinotes, Miss Lorshy, Mrs Stevenson, Mrs Cullen, Mrs McAndrew, Lisa, Ms Paris, Miss Boyle, Ms Davis, Mrs Phelan, Mrs Hand, Mrs Stewart, Mrs Lowe, Miss Simone, Dana-Lee, Kirstin, Catilin, Bridget, Ella, Elizabeth, Rae, Hannah, Sophie, Trish, Amy, Gina, Laura, Ilse, Megan, Carmel, Kristin, Orange, Joce, Rochelle, Bernadette Peters, Julie Andrews, Doris Day, Barbara Streisand, Debbie Reynolds, Marni Nixon, Judy Garland, Idina Menzel, Caroline O'Connor, Kristin Chenoweth, Drew Barrymore, Oprah, Doreen Virtue, Mary Poppins, Maria, Shirley MacLaine, Rachel Griffiths, Ariel, Judy from Meditation, all the women in meditation, Ali Smith, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Gilbert, Barbara Kingsolver, Alanis Morriset, and Tori Amos.
To all the women whose names I have inadvertantly omitted, you're in there too.
Thank you.